[Always Right]

Of the top tier candidates, Thompson is the only one who is decent on immigration, and the only one NOT mentioned in this article.

[MBB1984]

Hopefully, South Carolina will do to McInsane what it did eight years ago: Sending him home angry and tired in a pathetic defeat

[JohnnyZ]

Noelle should leave the political writing to Lee Bandy.

[pgkdan]

“And let’s face it,” he added. “There’s some bigotry in there and that fuels it.”

Oh sure...only a bigot would care that his country is being invaded. Only bigots care about law and order and only a bigot would want to protect his personal sovereignty.

Illegal Immigration is a great issue for Fred. He's the only guy with any credibility at all on this issue.

[Badeye]

Neither McCain nor Huckabee can address immigration in a way that won’t hurt them politically.

[MittFan08]

Then how the heck do you explain Lindsey Graham? SC needs to reel that boy in.

[WalterSkinner]

..it is phenomenal that a candidate whom the MSM polls somewhere around zero has so influenced the debate that the the so-called "top tier" candidates are falling all over themselves becoming "border hawks"

Thank you Duncan Hunter

[stockstrader]

Immigration certainly is the hot issue now (as it should be).

But social issues (abortion, guns, gays) were virtually ignored in the debate last night.

That's a shame,,,because Rudy would have done so much better in the debate if they had been discussed--because we all know how strong Rudy is on those issues with his 'gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, gay right crusading' positions....lol

[normy]

Fred needs to turn up the "negative ads" by playing vide of each candidate in their own words.

We have Huckabe calling opponents of amnesty racists in the very first debate.

We have McCain and his amnesty bill and hopefully some warm comments about Kennedy as well as McCain supporter Graham "telling the racists to go home" and "America is not a country it's an ideal". Fred can simply ask John if agrees with Mike and Lindsey in the next debate since John and Lindsey are so close. If John says he doesn't agree, Fred can ask him why he didn't stand up for the American citizen then?

I am sure Mitts on record somewhere flip flopping on this.

[silly.kerry.trix.are.for.kids]

I just sent an email to the reporter regarding her omission of Hunter. Attached to the story is a list of where the candidates stand on immigration and once again Duncan Hunter is not listed and we all wonder why he is not doing better. Any Hunter supporters willing to do a nice “letter to the editor”? I’m not good at those.

[4everontheRight]

Immigration is my number 1 voting topic this election. I am in the upstate of SC and we are BOMBARDED with illegals in this area...peach pickers, etc. The town of Berea has been renamed by locals as Burritoville. It is very open and obvious in that city...illegals hanging out on street corners, etc. So, I doubt I am the only one in my area who considers illegals immigration to be their number 1 topic for this election....an btw, did I mention we are the home of Lindsey Grahamnesty

[FreePaul]

The Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research institute,...

The center's name doesn't give me a feeling that it is "nonpartisan."

[zerosix]

“And let’s face it,” he added. “There’s some bigotry in there and that fuels it.”

Typical media elitist response -
don't want your emergency rooms closed due to lack of funds to pay for illegals = bigiotry; don't like your kids being in crowded schools with kids from third world countries, giving them lice, whooping cough, measles, TB = bigotry;
don't like paying higher taxes to support welfare, food stamps, housing vouchers going to non-citizen, illegal aliens = bigotry;
tired of growing crime problems everywhere = bigotry.

I, personally, am exhausted by liberals referring to me and others like me as "bigots" because I don't desire to pay for their slave labor nannies, lawn services and construction cos. that "keep prices down" on their manions by using under paid, untaxed wages as bigots.

They are liberal, elite bigots who want slaves and would gladly take us back to the days of slavery. Not blacks from Africa (unless they are here as illegal aliens, of course) but desire a constant supply of near slave labor to affordd all of the things they want at dirt cheap prices.

It is really they who are the bigots for not desiring to help these poor people gain the freedom, democracy "good life" and all that it entails in their own countries, where they already speak the language!

[NRA2BFree]

“Our voters are more concerned about the war and finding good jobs,” said Joe Werner, executive director of the S.C. Democratic Party.

I don't believe the stupidity of RATS. People might be able to find a good job if the Mexicans weren't taking them all!!

That being said. I cannot wait for this election. I certainly hope the good people in So. Carolina will dump that sorry pos, Lindsey Graham! I absolutely detest him!! IF I never have to hear his whiny little faggot voice, or look at his little girlie face again, it will be too soon.

[montag813]

“This is the new Confederate flag issue in South Carolina on the Republican side,” said Neal Thigpen, a political science professor at Francis Marion University and a Republican.

A disgraceful comparison.

"And let’s face it,” he added. “There’s some bigotry in there and that fuels it.”

And now we see he is a RINO, not a "Republican".

[jbwbubba]

Is there another debate in SC before the vote?

[AuntB]

DUNCAN HUNTER RATED EXCELLENT, AHEAD OF ALL THE OTHERS BY NUMBERS USA, Jan. 5, 2008

HUNTER has 9 EXCELLENTS (the rest all GOOD), compared to the next 6 Excellents (One Poor) of Fred Thompson. Hunter is WAY ahead of he rest of them that are left in the race. Ron Paul earned one ‘excellent’ and several ‘poor’, ‘bad’.

See Chart:
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop1.html

[gubamyster]

ping

[television is just wrong]

Of course it is important, we are being taken over...trojan horse and all that...